Googly Eyes

Little googly eyes have become my nemesis.  Alexander's babysitter has the kids glue eyes on everything that they make.  I think that they are putting more eyes on things this year than ever before.  Then, when Alexander brings his school work home on Friday, he proceeds to take all of the eyes off of his projects.  I stand there and tell him to put the eyes in the trash can, but do you think that happens?  Nope!  Then I spend tons of time looking for teeny, tiny eyes on the floor and swiffering for hopefully find them.  Of course, I never find them all, but we have a baby who is great at it.  Today, I found her with one of them in her mouth.  Thank God I caught it in time.  I told Alexander to stop taking the eyes off of his pictures or I'm going to tell his teacher that he isn't allowed to have eyes on his work.  I think maybe they need to draw eyes instead of gluing them on. 

We Are Prepared...I Think

We spent our weekend preparing for Hurricane Sandy.  It is supposed to be a monster storm.  We went to Target yesterday and got stocked up on canned goods, batteries, flashlights, and water.  Then we went home and spent the rest of the day raking and bagging leaves.  My dad asked me why we were doing all of that work when the storm could blow them away.  We decided to bag up the leaves so that they won't clog our drains.  We ended up bagging about 30 bags of leaves and we still have some left on the trees.  We also did a lot of laundry because if we lose power, it may be awhile before we can wash our clothes.

Today, we decided to take a trip to the farmer's market for apples.  It may be our last chance to get farmer's market apples.  Then we went to the grocery store to pick up a few more supplies.  We have the basement set up and ready for us to spend the day there on Tuesday.  Our biggest fear is that a tree is going to fall on our house.  (If you've been to our house, you know that it is a real fear!  We have over 16 tall trees in our yard.)

My hope is that this storm will not be as bad as they are predicting.  Hopefully we have done enough to be ready for it!

Here are some pictures of our leaf raking adventure yesterday!

Pumpkin Patch and Randomness

It has been completely crazy around our house during the last few weeks.  We have been constantly running to different events.  I feel like I haven't had any time at home until today.  So, of course, our house has suffered because of this, but, OH WELL!  I choose to spend my time with my kids and I will clean the house when I can, but please don't judge me!

Last weekend, we took a trip to the local pumpkin patch.  It is a small nursery right by our house and they bring out bouncy houses and fun activities every year.  Every year at the end of September, Batman shows up there!  It is exciting!  The best part about it is that we only had to pay for Alexander.  We  usually go to the big pumpkin patch that charges everyone to get in and we just couldn't afford it this year.  Luckily, Alexander loves going to the local place and couldn't wait to see Batman again.

He had tons of fun and we took a lot of pictures.  Even Julia got in on the action at one of the bouncy houses and a rocking horse.  She thought it was a fun trip too! 

The funniest part was that he didn't even ask us to buy him a pumpkin.  When I had told him that we could go to a pumpkin patch for him to get a pumpkin, he told me that he wasn't getting his pumpking there.  He was going to get his pumpkin at Lowes.  When he told me that, I laughed!  We ended up buying his pumpkin at Home Depot, but he was happy with it.

This past week was really crazy.  I took my third graders on a field trip and we didn't get home until 8:00pm.  We had some tired kids and teachers.  Luckily it was a really great trip, but I don't want to go on it again next year unless we charter buses.  Waiting for the school buses to come back took too long.

Then this weekend, we went to two birthday parties.  The kids had a great time, but Alexander was really worn out.  He ended up falling asleep on the couch this afternoon.  All in all, the last few weeks have been a whirlwind.  Hopefully, I can catch up on housework and school work during the next couple of weeks!

First Time for Everything

We have had a week full of firsts.  Alexander passed his egg challenge on Tuesday!  That was a very exciting day.  He is now cleared by the doctor to eat anything he wants.  We had to celebrate by getting a real cupcake from a bakery.  It looked a lot better than the ones that I make that have tofu in them instead of egg.

 He also ate stuffed shells for the first time and loved them.  He got to eat wings in a restaurant and this weekend, we went to IHOP for the first time in about 2 years.  He got a pancake to eat.  He ate all of it and even ate some of my breakfast.  It was the first time that we were able to share our food with him.

 Then we went to the grocery store and he got his first ever bakery cookie.  Overall, those were some great "firsts" for him.  He has been a real trooper throughout the last few years.  I don't think he has every complained about not being able to eat something.  Now he has everything available to him and I couldn't be happier for him.